Chemmeen Chukka | Prawns Chukka | Malabar Style Chemmeen Chukka

How to prepare Chemmeen Chukka | Prawns Chukka | Malabar Style Chemmeen Chukka

Chemmeen Chukka | Prawns Chukka | Malabar Style Chemmeen Chukka

Ingredients:-

• Prawns – 500 Gram
• Onion – 1 Big sliced
• Tomato – 1 Big Size
• Green Chilli – 2
• Ginger – 1 Inch 
• Garlic – 10 Pods 
• Coriander Leaves as required
• Curry leaves as required
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Chilli powder – 1 Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – 1 Tablespoon
• Kashmiri Chilli Powder – 1 ½ Teaspoon
• Garam masala – ½ Teaspoon
• Vinegar – 1 Tablespoon
• Salt to taste

Preparation:-

• Heat oil in a pan and sauté well by adding a little salt
• Add tomato, ginger, garlic, green chilli, and coriander leaves paste into the pan and mix it well
• Add turmeric powder, chili powder, Kashmiri chilli powder, coriander powder water as required water and sauté well
• Transfer cleaned Prawns into the pan and cook well
• Pour required water to cook the prawns and close the pan with a lid
• Add garam masala, curry leaves, vinegar and mix it well
• Tasty Chemmeen Chukka is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

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Kerala style Chemmeen Parippu Curry | Special Prawns Dal Curry | Malabar Style Chemmen Parippu Curry

How to make Kerala style Chemmeen Parippu Curry | Special Prawns Dal Curry | Malabar Style Chemmen Parippu Curry

Prawns and Dal is a perfect combination to prepare curry for rice. By adding few drumstick will give super taste to the curry. Chemmeen is one of the favorite fish for all fish lovers and the curry prepared using chemmeen along with parippu is enough to eat a plate full of rice. Try to prepare this Malabar Style Chemmeen Parippu curry and let me know the feedback.

Chemmeen Parippu Curry | Prawns Dal Curry | Malabar Style Chemmen Parippu Curry

Ingredients:-

• Prawns – 250 Gram
• Drumstick - 1
• Dal (soaked) - ¼ Cup
• Onion – 1 Small
• Green Chilli – 2
• Ginger – ¼ Inch Crushed
• Garlic – 5 Pods Crushed
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Red chilli powder – ¾ Tablespoon
• Tomato – 1 Medium Size
• Tamarind – Gooseberry size soaked in 3/4 Cup water
• Salt to taste
• Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
• Cumin Seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Water as required 
• Mustard Seeds – ½ Teaspoon
• Fenugreek – ¼ teaspoon
• Curry Leaves as needed

Preparation:-

• Take a cooker and cook soaked dal
• Heat oil in a mud pot and sauté chopped onion by adding little salt
• Add green chilli, ginger garlic and sauté well
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and continue sautéing 
• Add tomato and curry leaves and sauté
• Add drumstick and cleaned prawns, ¾ Cup tamarind water and cook well by closing the pot
•  Smash cooked dal and add it in the curry and mix it well
• Take a mixer grinder, add coconut, a pinch of turmeric powder, cumin seeds and grind it well
• Transfer the ground coconut into the curry, add required water for the curry and mix it well
• Heat oil in a pan add splutter mustard seeds, add fenugreek, curry leaves into it and then transfer it into curry
• Tasty Chemmeen parippu curry is ready to serve

Cheers!!!
Minu
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Thalassery Special Chemmeen Biriyani | Prawns Biriyani

How to prepare Chemmeen Biriyani | Prawns Biriyani

Chemmeen Biriyani | Prawns Biriyani

Ingredients for preparing Biriyani Rice:-

• Biriyani Rice (Jeera) – 2 Cup
• Fennel Seeds – ¼ Tsp
• Cloves - 4
• Cardamom – 3
• Cinnamon – One small stick
• Mace – 1 strand
• Bay leaf – 2 small
• Star Anise - 2
• Water – 3 Cup
• Oil & Ghee as required
• Salt to taste
• Lemon Juice - from half portion of a lemon

Ingredients for Onion Fry (Bista):-

• Onion - 2 Medium
• Salt to taste
• Sugar – ¼ Teaspoon

Ingredients for Prawns Marination:-

• Prawns – 250 Gram
• Turmeric – ¼ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Salt to taste

Ingredients for Prawns Masala:-

• Onion – 3 Medium
• Ginger (1 Inch) Garlic (12 Pods) and Green Chilli (2) paste
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – ¾ Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – 2 Teaspoon
• Tomato – 2 Medium
• Garam masala– ¼ Teaspoon
• Pepper powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Salt to taste
• Oil as required
• Coriander leaves as needed
• Mint leaves as required

Preparation:-

Biriyani Rice

• Heat 2 Tablespoon ghee in a vessel, add all the spices (Cloves, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Bay Leaves, and Fennel Seeds) into it and sauté well
• Add rice into the vessel and mix it well until rice starts cracking. Add 3 cup water into the rice.
• Add salt into it
• Add lemon juice (squeezed from half portion of the lemon) into the rice
• Once it starts boiling close the vessel with a lid and place a weight on top of the vessel
• Heat oil in a pan and add finely chopped onion and sauté well by adding a little salt

Onion Fry (Bista)

• To make the fried onion crispy add a little sugar into it and continue sautéing

Prawns Marination

• Take prawns in a bowl and add salt to taste, turmeric powder, and chilli powder and mix it well

Prawns Masala

• Heat oil in a pan and add onion into it sauté well by adding a little salt
• Add ginger garlic and green chilli paste into it and continue sautéing
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and coriander powder
• Add tomatoes into the pan
• Add Prawns and mix it well. Pour required water to cook the Prawns and add few coriander leaves
• Cook the prawns by closing the vessel
• Add garam masala and pepper powder and mix it well
• Add fried half portion of fried onion into it
• Once the masala become dry switch off the stove
• Heat a pan and add ghee into it. Fry cashew nuts and raisins and keep it aside
• Layering:-
• ·               Take a big vessel and spread Prawns masala on top of it
• ·               Add cooked Biriyani rice on the top of prawns masala
• ·               Add Coriander leaves
• ·               Add fried cashew nuts and raisins
• ·               Add a little garam masala
• ·               Continue the process
• Heat a dosa pan. Place the cooker on the top of the pan. Keep the flame low for 5 min
• Tast Thalassery special Chemmeen Biriyani is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Chemmeen Varattiyathu | Prawns Roast | Konchu Roast

How to prepare Chemmeen Varattiyathu | Prawns Roast?

Chemmeen Varattiyathu | Prawns Roast?

Ingredients:-

• Prawns – ½ Kg
• Shallot – 1 Cup
• Tomato – 2 Small
• Green chilli - 1
• Ginger – 1 Inch
• Garlic – 10 Pods
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – ¾ Tablespoon
• Coriander Powder – 1 ½ Tablespoon
• Pepper Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Garam Masala – ½ Teaspoon
• Salt as required
• Curry leaves as required

Preparation:-

• Crush shallot, green chilli, ginger, garlic using a mixer
• Take a clay pot and heat 3 tablespoon oil. Add crushed shallot, ginger, green chilli and garlic into the clay pot and sauté well
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and curry leaves into the pot and continue sautéing
• Add tomato and sauté
• Transfer cleaned prawns and then add required salt and mix it well
• Close the pot and cook well. Make sure you open the lid and stir it well
• Add pepper powder, garam masala and few curry leaves into the prawns and mix it well
• Switch off the stove and pour a teaspoon raw coconut oil
• Tasty Chemmeen Varattiyathu / Prawns roast is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Malabar Special Chemmeen Unda Puttu | Iftar/Nombuthura special Chemmeen Unda Puttu

How to Prepare Malabar Special Chemmeen Unda Puttu | Iftar/Nombuthura special Chemmeen Unda Puttu?

Malabar Special Chemmeen Unda Puttu | Iftar/Nombuthura special Chemmeen Unda Puttu

Ingredients:-

• Rice Flour – 1 Cup
• Prawns – 150 gm
• Onion – 1 Medium size chopped
• Tomato – ½ of Medium size chopped
• Ginger (½ Inch) garlic (6 pods) crushed – 1 Tsp
• Chilli Powder – 1 Tsp
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Tsp
• Coriander powder – 1 ½ Tsp
• Pepper Powder – ¼ Tsp
• Garam Masala – ¼ Tsp
• Grated Coconut as needed for coating
• Curry leaves as needed
• Salt to taste

 

Preparation:-

• Take a pan and boil 1 cup and 2 tbsp water, add required salt into it.
• Once it starts boiling add the rice flour into it and mix it well to make the dough. Keep it aside to cool down

Prawns Masala

• Take a pan and pour little oil, add chopped onion into it and sauté well
• Add ginger garlic paste into the pan and continue sautéing
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder into it and sauté again
• Add chopped tomato, curry leaves into the mixture
• Now add prawns into it and mix well. Pour required water, salt into it and cook the prawns
• Once prawns is cooked, add pepper powder
• Add Garam masala into the prawns and mix it well
• Switch off the stove once the mixture is dried and ready for the stuffing

 Prawns Stuffed Balls

• Transfer the rice flour mix into a separate vessel and kneed it well by applying oil in your hand
• Make medium size balls and flatten the same using your hand to fill the Prawns masala
• Keep the Prawns masala in the middle and close all the sides to make balls
• Roll/dip the Prawns stuffed balls into grated coconut so that grated coconut stick on top of the balls
• Steam the Prawns stuffed balls (“Chemmeen Unda Puttu”) for around 10 min
• After 10 min open the cooker and transfer the “Chemmeen Unda Puttu” into a serving dish
• Tasty “Chemmeen Unda Puttu” is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Varuthu Aracha Chemmeen/Prawns Curry

Varuthu Aracha Chemmeen/Prawns Curry

Ingredients:-

• Prawns – 250 gm
• Small Onion/Shallot - 8
• Ginger – ½ Tsp
• Garlic – 8 Pods
• Green Chilli - 1
• Curry leaves – as required
• Tomato – 1 Medium
• Turmeric Powder – 1 Tsp
• Chilli Powder – 1 Tbsp
• Salt as required
• Coriander Powder – 1 Tbsp
• Tamarind Water – ½ Cup

 Ingredients for frying coconut:-

• Coconut – ½ Cup
• Small Onion/Shallot - 2
• Garlic – 3 pods
• Curry Leaves as required
• Pepper – ½ Tsp

 Preparation:-

• Cut and clean the Prawns and take that into a clay pot.
• Add Salt, Turmeric powder, Chilli Powder, Coriander Powder and mix well and Keep it aside for 5 min
• After 5 Min, add Garlic, Ginger, Small Onion/Shallot, Green chilli, Tomato and tamarind water into the marinated prawns and mix well. Keep it aside for another 5 min
• To fry the coconut, take a pan, add a little coconut oil and grated coconut into it and stir well
• Once coconut become hot add Small Onion/Shallot, Garlic, Pepper and curry leaves into it and stir continuously until coconut colour changes to brown.
• Transfer the fried coconut mixture into a mixer and grind the mixture by adding ½ cup water and keep it aside.
• Add ¼ cup water into it and cook the prawns. Once it start boiling keep the flame low
• Pour the blended coconut into the Prawns and mix well
• Add Curry leaves and also add water if you require more curry
• Switch off the stove once it reaches the required consistency
• Take a pan and add a little oil and splutter the mustard seeds
• Add small Onion/Shallot and curry leaves and sauté well until it become brown color
• Transfer the mustard and onion mixture into the prawns curry
• Serve it hot with rice, Chapati, Appam!!

Cheers!!!

Minu

Chilli Prawns

Ingredients
prawns  - 300 gm
Onion   - 1Chopped
Green chilli –1
Ginger Paste– 1 Tsp
Garlic (chopped) – 1 Tsp
Chilli Powder – 1 Tsp
Turmeric Powder – 1/2 Tsp
Coriander powder  - 1 Tsp
Garam masala   - 1 Tsp
Tomato  - 1
Soy sauce  - 1 Tblsp
Tomato Sauce  - 1 Tblsp
water
Coriander leaves

Salt
Oil

Preparation

• Heat oil in a wok.
• Stir fry the onion till fragrant
• Add salt, chilli powder, turmeric powder and coriander powder.stir well.
• Add chopped tomato and fry.
• Then add prawns and mix with the masala.Add water and cook.
• Once the prawns are fully cooked add Soy sauce and tomato sauce and stir well..
• Last add garam masala and coriander leaves.

Cheers !!!
Minu